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"Gentlemen, I have been in many companies, and I have found it true, all the world over, that what a man brings he finds. I have the honour to speak to you as a soldier to soldiers " "English or Irish?" asked a tall sallow man sharply, but in a new tone. "Irish!" "Oh, be jabers!" from the man with the wineglass.
"They're coming, right enough," said Brian abruptly in a whisper. "I caught the sound of voices just now, and by jabers it seems to me they're Gypies." This was a surmise of the Irishman's imagination, for as yet Helmar had heard no voice; but still the sounds came nearer.
"Be jabers!" said Mick, sighting his rifle and pretending to take aim at the swab as he went off after imposing this extra task on us, though he waited until the officious gentleman's back was turned, as may be taken for granted, "Oi wud loike to spot thet chap roight in the bull's-eye, bad cess to him!
"Sure an' you're a foine gintleman, taking it aisy," said Pat Doolan, when I went up to him. "An' is it a pannikin o' coffee you'll be afther wanting, this watch?" "I shouldn't refuse it if you offered it," said I, with a laugh. "Be jabers, you're the bhoy for the coffee!" he replied cheerily. "An' its meeself that's moighty proud to sarve you.
"Be jabers!" exclaimed the first-mate in surprise; "and how, thin, will you carry the lot ov us?"
"Moonshine, is it! By jabers, and it's a mighty poor compliment to the moon to call him so. And is it the language you're going to larn now? Shure, Mr. Charles, I wouldn't demane myself by larning the lingo of these black hathens. Isn't for them to larn the English, and mighty pleased they ought to be, to get themselves to spake like Christians." "But who's going to teach them, Tim?"
Cooley mounted the platform an Irishman in the back part of the hall inquired in a voice loud enough to be heard by the entire audience, "Is that Cooley?" Upon being assured that it was, he replied in a still louder voice: "Be jabers, that's the man that told me to holler for Cooley." The laugh was decidedly on Cooley, and his attempted flight of oratory did not materialize.
"Be jabers, I fale like a cat on a hot griddle," said Pat Doolan, as he danced in and out of the galley, engaged in certain cooking operations on a large scale which the skipper had ordered; "I'll soon have no sowl at all, at all, to me cawbeens!"
If that battle had been followed up as it should have been, Johnson would never have reached Bull Run." "Be jabers! do you know, Lieutenant, that that fight was all a mistake upon our part? Shure, our ginerals niver intended it." A laugh, with the inquiry "how he knew that?" followed.
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